652 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



"The flesh of the hartebeest ... is fairly good eating. ... It is 

 used a good deal as biiltong, and in that form ... is very palatable. 

 A hartebeest stew is by no means bad." (Bryden, 1899, pp. 151, 156.) 



This species must have suffered, like other South African mam- 

 mals, from the vast hide-hunting operations of the Boers a century 

 ago. In the Kalahari it is still being shot by poachers, who can now 

 penetrate to the waterless areas in motor cars without trouble (J. 

 Stevenson-Hamilton, in Hit., February 22, 1933) . 



Factors in preservation. "Hartebeests are extremely wary ante- 

 lopes; they are possessed of marvellous powers of scent and hearing, 

 and . . . they have managed to maintain their ground against the 

 many hunters ... at least as well as most other South African 

 beasts of chase. . . . The desert nature of much of their habitat 

 has, no doubt, enabled them thus to prolong their unequal combat 

 against the advances of civilization and the increasing plenty of arms 

 of precision." (Bryden, 1899, p. 156.) 



Angolan Red Hartebeest 



ALCELAPHUS CAAMA EVALENSIS (Monard) 



Bubalis caama, sb. evalensis Monard, Bull. Soc. Neuchateloise Sci. Nat., vol. 57, 

 p. 64, figs. 9-10, 1933: (Evale, 200 km. south of Vila da Ponte, southern 

 Angola.) 



This subspecies was based upon only two specimens from Evale, 

 and the meager additional records indicate a probable scarcity in 

 Angola. 



Pelage almost the same as in A. caama caama, but horns of the 

 male distinctly different; pelage brownish rufous, darker on the head, 

 neck, front of shoulders, and median dorsal line ; black markings on 

 legs; chin black; muzzle yellowish; face and forehead black, inter- 

 rupted by brown at the level of the eyes. Viewed from in front, the 

 horns form three-quarters of a circle, its interior diameter 16 cm.; 

 they are then bent backward for 20 cm., where they are parallel. 

 The female is colored like the male, except that all the marks are 

 paler. This subspecies is much more distinct from the two others 

 than they are from each other. (Monard, 1933, pp. 64-66.) 



In a later paper (1935, pp. 266-267) Monard discards the horn 

 characters as individual variations, but maintains the subspecies on 

 the basis of slight differences in coloration. He also records a third 

 specimen from the vicinity of Fort Roc.adas on the middle course of 

 the Cunene River, and speaks of having seen the animal in fairly 

 numerous bands in that region. 



In Angola "the Hartebeest seems to be restricted to a triangle 

 bounded by the Cunene, the Chitanda (an eastern affluent of the 



